Winter Poker

Kniphofia rooperi

Rooper's Red-Hot Poker, Lentevuurpyl (Afr.), Icacane (Isizulu)

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This evergreen perennial produces beautiful flowers with buds ranging from bright red to orange-yellow and the actual flowers ranging from orange-red to yellow-green during winter and early spring. It grows best in wetter areas.
ZA Distribution: Eastern Cape.

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by Lou Nita Le Roux, Lowveld National Botanical Garden, December 2014 (Copyright South African National Biodiversity Institute, South Africa)

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